Bacte Lec - Functions of CM

Question 1

Transport of specimens to be cultured for Bacteroides ureolyticus and Neisseria gonorrhoeae

Answer 1

Amies medium

Question 2

Transport medium for throat
swabs, pertusis swabs, culture
swabs, charcoal swabs,
nasopharyngeal swabs

Answer 2

Amies medium

Question 3

Transport medium for Gram negative and anaerobic organisms

Answer 3

Cary-Blair medium

Question 4

Preservation and transportation of Neisseria species and other fastidious organisms from the clinic to laboratory

Answer 4

Stuart’s medium

Question 5

Cultivation and transport of fastidious microorganisms especially Neisseria species

Answer 5

Transgrow medium

Question 6

Fastidious and non fastidious

Answer 6

Brain Heart Infusion Broth/Agar

Question 7

Supports growth of anaerobes, aerobes, microaerophilic, and fastidious microorganisms

Answer 7

Thioglycollate broth

Question 8

Enrichment broth used for subculturing various bacteria from primary agar plates
Aerobes and fungi

Answer 8

Trypticase Soy Broth/Agar

Question 9

Cultivation of less fastidious microorganisms, can be enriched with blood or other biological fluids
Staphylococci and Enterobacteriaceae

Answer 9

Nutrient Agar/Broth

Question 10

Cultivation of non-fastidious organisms, determination of hemolytic reactions

Answer 10

Blood Agar

Question 11

Cultivation of fastidious microorganisms such as Haemophilus spp., Brucella spp., and pathogenic Neisseria spp.

Answer 11

Chocolate Agar

Question 12

Isolation and growth of Corynebacterium

Answer 12

Loeffler’s Serum Agar

Question 13

Recovery of fastidious organisms and facilitate carbohydrate fermentation when testing gonococci
Microbes from spinal fluid

Answer 13

Dextrose Ascitic Fluid AGAR

Question 14

Detection of deoxyribonuclease activity of bacteria and fungi, and especially for
identification of pathogenic Staphylococci

Answer 14

DNA Agar

Question 15

Detection of lecithinase and lipase production and proteolytic activity of certain obligate anaerobes and in the presumptive identification of various Clostridium, Fusobacterium , and Prevotella spp.

Answer 15

Egg Yolk Agar

Question 16

Investigate the presence of proteolytic microorganisms, as evidenced by the liquefaction
of gelatin. The liquefaction rate is important in the characterization of
Enterobacteriaceae family groups and other groups of microorganisms

Answer 16

Gelatin Medium

Question 17

For sensitivity tests on antibiotics and sulfamides, and for the primary isolation of Neisseria and other pathogens from clinical samples

Answer 17

Mueller Hinton Agar/Broth

Question 18

Propagation of Chlamydia spp.

Answer 18

McCoy Cells

Question 19

Cultivation of M. leprae

Answer 19

Foot Pad of Mice or Armadillo

Question 20

Chlamydia, rickettsiae, virus

Answer 20

EMbryonated Egg

Question 21

Screening for Escherichia coli strains with invasive potential

Answer 21

HeLa Cell